Download Test Key Exam #1 Multiple Choice Chapter One 1. Which of the

Test Key Exam #1
Multiple Choice
Chapter One
1. Which of the following is NOT true of performance traditions?
2. Theatrical conventions are
3. Which of the following is NOT a universal principle applicable to all theatre everywhere?
4. Postmodernism
5. Multiculturalism
6. Which of the following best exemplifies multiculturalism in the theatre?
7. Wole Soyinka’s work
8. Peter Brook’s production of the famous Hindu epic The Mahabharata
9. Performance studies is an academic discipline that
10. The term “orientalism” refers to the
Chapter Two
1. Although theatre audiences are made up of individuals, they
2. Dithyrambs
3. An audience member’s response to a theatrical event might be influenced by their
4. The Free Southern Theater’s production of Slave Ship attempted to
5. Which of the following performance traditions has a passive audience?
6. What theatrical style is the rise of the passive audience is generally associated with?
7. Which of the following is a term that is used to discuss how much critical detachment a spectator has
from the play?
8. An aside is a
9. Realism is a style that resulted from the
10. Catharsis is
11. Agitprop theatre attempts to
12. Which of the following is NOT an example of agitprop theatre?
13. Theatre of the Oppressed was developed by
14. Verfremdungseffekt is defined as
15. Brecht wanted his audience to
16. Theatre criticism reflects
17. All good criticism
18. Martin Esslin coined the term “theatre of the absurd” is an example of
19. Which of the following is NOT an example of an artist as critic?
20. The Internet
Chapter Three
1. The plot of a play includes
2. Euripides’s Hippolytus, Racine’s Phèdre, and O’Neil’s Desire Under the Elms
3. Climactic structure is characterized by
4. Molière’s choice to end Tartuffe with the arrival of an emissary from the king to resolve the action of
the play is an example of
5. Which of the following best describes the progression of events in a play with a climactic plot?
6. The denouement of a play is
7. Aristotle felt the most important element of tragedy was
8. The well-made play
9. Ibsen created a “realistic stage” by
10. Which is NOT typical of episodic structure?
11. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be said to have an episodic structure because
12. A Doll's House subverts the structure of the well-made play because
13. Which of the following playwrights is well known for employing episodic structure?
14. Brecht rejected climatic structure because
15. Which of the following describes serial structure?
16. Complex characters who transcend the particular circumstances of their drama to speak across the
ages are called
17. Which of the following is an example of a psychological character?
18. Shakespeare’s line “Blow, blow thou winter wind” uses
19. Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine
20. Suzan-Lori Parks’s plays
Short Answer/Essay (5 point a piece)
Chapter 1.
1. What are some of the differences between text-based and performance traditions?
Chapter 2.
1. Discuss three possible origins of theatre.
2. What makes a theatre audience different than a film or television audience?
Chapter 3
1. How do dramatic characters reflect the era and culture in which they were created?
2. Describe four functions of dramatic language.